The Encyclopédie was
A) the eighteenth-century edition of the Index of Prohibited Books.
B) limited to the fields of botany and entomology.
C) a means of disseminating Enlightenment thought.
D) a compilation of all human knowledge.
E) a collection of information that included much of the empirical knowledge of its time.
Ans: C
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In the debates over ratification, a major fear of the Anti-Federalists was that
A. the most powerful groups in society would dominate and eventually rule in a corrupt and arbitrary fashion. B. the common people would have too much control over the government. C. elected officials would be too narrowly and directly concerned with the interests of their own constituents, rather than the nation as a whole. D. poorer groups would be favored over the more substantial citizens in society.
In the 1820s, Whig support for the Anti-Mason Party demonstrated
A. the desire of the party to attract the largest possible number of voters, and the party's intention to refrain from political mud-slinging. B. the intention of the party to refrain from political mud-slinging. C. the desire of the party to attract the largest possible number of voters. D. their conviction that Masonry encouraged radical egalitarianism. E. None of these answers is correct.
What political party did blacks generally support in the early twentieth century?
A) Democrat B) Populist C) Republican D) Blacks were split between the three parties.
How do most white Americans view the 1950s?
A) as a difficult time of repression and racial violence B) as a time of stable families and great prosperity C) as a time of great musical developments by blacks D) as a frightening time of worries about nuclear holocaust